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Hey all after a few months of giving up on trying to get my server to run I tried again and made it even worse. On a tutorial I was watching it suggested changing the port number. It appears this was a mistake as I can no longer access my sever even after uninstalling the program and reinstalling it. I’ve been fighting it for about a hour if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this mess please let me know

I’m running my server on a laptop running Linux Mint cinnamon

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Based on the very little information you've given here, I would recommend wiping the whole thing and starting over.

While you're doing that, I suggest running it in docker. It's a lot easier to contain an app with docker, because it runs in a container.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. Agree on docker. I held off on that for a long time and it does look intimidating at first, but its just a few basic commands and then things just work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish it were that easy. I'm fairly computer competent, comfortable enough in the Linux command line to follow any tutorials, and Google my way through most problems I run into.

But docker? Dang. Maybe once you figure it out, you forget how hard it was to learn. But that learning curve is STEEP. I banged my head against that wall for like a week before giving up. Everything is so abstracted away. I'm baffled every time it's recommended to newbies as easier than other options, especially when those newbies are struggling with ports of all things (no offense to OP).

Maybe I'm just dumb I guess 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm by no means an expert in Linux, but my best advice for someone finding docker complicated is to run Portainer.
It's made my Docker-life so much easier, especially if you run stacks with compose files. It's all graphical via the browser interface.

Need to make a change to to one of your containers?
Change the compose file (which stays exactly like you pasted it originally) in Portainer and re-deploy.
Need to update the container?
Click update and it re-deploys with the newest image.
Want to stop a container?
Just click stop.

The first thing I've done on all my small servers is to get the Docker Daemon running with CLI in the terminal, install Portainer and do everything else there.

So if you're dumb, then I'm dumb too, and it's not very nice to call people you don't know dumb, now is it...!?

Honestly, feel free to ask if you find the motivation to give it another crack and need some help. It's made me go from hating Docker to absolutely loving it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, I may go for this, that sounds much more simple than manually setting each one up, while still being just manual enough to remain customizable. And thanks for the offer of help.

I did buy a hexos license over black Friday. Mostly just to help a thing I think should exist, but I was also gonna give it a try when it got out of beta.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No worries, mate. The offer stands if you want it.

Have a great new year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope, I had the same experience. I don't know how many tutorials for set up of docker and jellyfin via docker that I read/watched and tried. Eventually I found one that worked, but I am still in that steep part of the curve after having successfully set up a few containers. That said, it has worked flawlessly since install, so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Glad to hear I'm not alone 😬

[–] thirdBreakfast 4 points 2 weeks ago

And simpler for us to help OP with.